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J. SCOTT.

130m),- OHEGK, OR OTHER 'SEGURIT-Y. No. 257,245. Patented May 2,1882.

UNITED STATES S O UTH AMERICA Wilnesses Inverdor N. PETERS. FhobLflhngnpher, Wishinglm D (L UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN SCOTT, OF \VASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

BOND, CHECK, OR OTHER SECURITY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 257,245, dated May 2, 1882.

Application filed December 12, 1881.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that 1, JOHN SCOT'I, of Washington, in the District of Columbia, have invented certain Im provem cuts in Bondsflhecks, and other Securities, of which the followingis a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in bonds, checks, 850.; and it consists in arranging the digits'in circles which have through the figures one concentric line for each unit in the denomination, which is printed across the face of the circle, all of which will be hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

In the drawing the figure represents a bond.

The distinctive features in this invention are the oirculararrangementof the nine digits and zero for the units, tens, hundreds, thousands, &c., their radial positions in each circle, and circular lines made concentric, so that one line shall be in the unit circle, two lines in the tens, three lines in the hundreds, four lines in the thousands, five lines in tens of thousands, and six lines in the hundreds of thousands, and so on. This is to prevent any figure being cut by the punch from any circle and pasted in any other circle. The figures being made in outline, these circular lines will traverse the figure, and consequently cannot (No specimens.)

which it may be inserted for the purpose of changing or raising the amount. The figures are arranged in circular form and the different denominations printed diametrically, so that by cutting a hole from the center the designation as printed across the diameter is out partially out, as shown in the figure, for hundreds of thousands.

I am aware that it is not new to prevent the raising of the numbers in bonds, checks, 860., by cutting certain figures from a tabular form having a different fashion of numbers in said columns, as shown in the patent of Man, September 3, 1867, No. 68,418. I therefore do not claim any such arrangement. I

I claim- A bond or check having the series of numbers arranged radially in the different circles, from units upward, each set having one concentric line across the faces of the figures for each unit in the denomination printed diametrically across the face of the circle.

JOHN SCOTT. 

